Tuesday, August 12, 2014

ATP

ATP is part of photosynthesis and cellular respiration. The plants will produce glucose through sunlight and then animals will consume the glucose to create ATP. The plant pictured is producing glucose for an animal to eat and to continue on the process. ATP is energy that every living utilizes in daily processes.

Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction is the reproduction from one parent only. The offspring inherit all of the traits from its parent, becoming an exact replica of its parent. The strawberry patch that I have pictured above has spread the same way, the parents produce shoots that start a new plant.

Archaebacteria

Archaebacteria is a domain of a single celled microorganism. These microbes are prokaryotes, meaning they have no nucleus. Many archaea thrive in extreme conditions such as hot sulfur pools or in minerals and rock deep inside the earth. As the boiling water above represents these harsh conditions that the archaebacteria can live in. They even found a new group of archae in an acid mine drainage, they called it arman.  

Anther and filament of stamen

The stamen is the male reproductive part of a flower. It produces pollen, and consists of the anther and stalk. The anther is the sac in which pollen grains develop and is located at the stamen's tip. The filament is the stalk that supports the anther. The flower I have pictured has small filaments and anthers that are hard to see but you can kinda see it in the very bottom flower. The pollon on the anther will spread by animals and wind to other flowers. 

Animal with a segmented body

A segmented body is a division of an animal's body plan. There are 3 different sections, whether individually or together with other segments. The sections are called the head, thorax, and abdomen. The dragonfly pictured has a segmented body.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Amniotic egg

Amniotic egg is the type of egg produced by certain reptiles and birds. The embryo develops inside of a shell. Pictured is an amniotic egg my chicken produced.

Altruistic behavior

Altruistic behavior can be defined as animals giving help to other animals that may give itself a disadvantage of its own. For an example I have a picture of my mare(star) and her newly born foal (Bentley). Star would go after a predator such as a coyote or fox, to protect her baby before she would run away which is against a horse's nature.